"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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Maxprop wrote:

"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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Lots of batting practice:

http://tinyurl.com/o9owv

The brutal murder of harp seal pups still evokes a visceral reaction
after
all these years. Think how much better the US baseball team would be if
we
could bash the skulls of those Canadian hunters. I'm betting Dusty Baker
could probably raise the Cubs' team average by .200.

Max

Brutal murder? My ass! It's no worse than what we do to millions of
pigs and cows every year.

Hardly. Most domesticated farm animals slaughtered for food and hides are
sacrificed with a device termed a "humane killer," which is little more than
a gun that blows the brains to mush instantly, obviating pain on the part of
the animal. The animal is generally dead before it hits the ground. The
harp seal thugs club the poor things until they are immobile, but often not
dead. The pups lie there, some for hours, dying in agony, having been
live-scalped. And they leave the fur-stripped carcasses to rot on the snow.

You do realize that nobody has taken a white coat in over twenty years?

Your point? They are still clubbing the pups to death in an inhumane way.
The problem is only partly the Canadian seal "hunters." The European market
for such furs is the other part.

Max